Miniature Antique American Folk Art Painting on Paper, The Happy Family made in thailand with a heart shaped leaf

with a heart shaped leaf (the shape I think is wrong to represent a tobacco leaf) on a long stem

I really love this guy

Plus it's just a nice sculptural object

2 1/4" tall x 1 3/8" wide and deep

which is wonderfully strange

Miniature Antique American Folk Art Painting on Paper, The Happy Family made in thailand with a heart shaped leafI can't stop looking (peering, really) at this miniature American folk art drawing painting, earlyish 19th century ink and watercolor on paper I believe. In addition to being wonderfully done, with marvelous details the little dog! the profile of the child's face in his mothers arms! the way the house is set into the very green river bank, with stairs marching down I also love its internal tensions and contradictions. If you look closely, there appear